[Jou (Louis)] Montaigne (Michel, seigneur de) :Livre Rare Book
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15939Paris, Presses de Louis Jou, 1934-1936 ; 3 tomes in-4 raisin (25 x 33 cm), brochés sous couverture crème rempliée illustrée, chemise demi-toile noire, titre repris du portefeuille d'origine or sur fond rouge, étui noir bordé de toile noire (étuis renouvelés avec titres conservés) ; composé de plus de 1200 pages, 3 couvertures, 3 titres, 3 portraits, colophons, bandeaux, lettres ornées, culs-de-lampe, etc. ; soit environ 380 gravures ; le tirage est en noir et rouge et, selon les besoins, or et camaïeu, le blason à fond bleu et meubles dorés.
12529Paris, Albin Michel, 1990. In-8, broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 564 pp.
Paris, Albin Michel, 1990. In-8, broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 564 pp. Planches hors-texte.
12528Paris, Gallimard, 1984. In-8, broché, 341 pp.
Paris, Gallimard, 1984. In-8, broché, 341 pp.
200935935Lakewood CO: Centipede Press 2009. First edition trade issue. A fine copy in a just about fine slipcase with a little black residue from a traycase of another of the publishers titles laying on it. Note: heavy volume extra postage required. 35935. Large format 11.5" x 15.5" cloth back pictorial boards. Over four hundred page massive compilation of artists and illustrators of Stephen King material. Includes work by Stephen Gervais J. K. Potter Ned Dameron Thomas Canty Berni Wrightson Michael Whelan and many others. Includes essays on the artists as well as several interviews. Introduction by film director Frank Darabont. Centipede Press unknown
2011093296Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery 2011. Hardcover. pp. 247. 4to. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Black-and-white and colour photographs and illustrations. Lightest shelfwear; very good in lightly shelfworn very good dustjacket. A catalogue of a 2011/2012 exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery the Hamilton Art Gallery and the Victoria Art Gallery. Winnipeg Art Gallery hardcover
11041Paris, Librairie Ollendorff, 1923. In-8, broché, 211 pp.
Paris, Librairie Ollendorff, 1923. In-8, broché, 211 pp.
17942Paris, Editions Seheur, collection " Masques et idées ", 19 mai 1929. in-12, broché, couverture rempliée, 358 pp plus pages de notes et d'éclaircissements et table (13 pages n.p).
Paris, Editions Seheur, collection " Masques et idées ", 19 mai 1929. in-12, broché, couverture rempliée, 358 pp plus pages de notes et d'éclaircissements et table (13 pages n.p). Edition originale, tirage à 1500 ex numérotés. Bel ex.
27596Paris, Editions du Bélier, Les Documents Littéraires, 1946. Grand in-8, broché, 361 pp dont 24 pages d'introduction. Avec chemise et étui.
197022810<p>Carbondale:: Southern Illinois University 1970. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing to the extremities. Review copy with review slip & author photo laid in. This collection brings together 14 of Cowley's critical essays on the major and a few minor American writers whose impact on American literature Cowley celebrates.</p> Southern Illinois University, hardcover
196224043<p>Boston::: Little Brown & Co 1962. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped bright dust jacket with some light edge wear to the spine. With this collection of essays Kazin has produced a critical survey of the modern spirit in literature featuring over seventy essays including individual studies ranging from Melville Emerson and Thoreau to James Agee Saul Bellow and James Baldwin. With obscure concepts increasingly clouding today's literary scene the frank common sense of critic Alfred Kazin is a relief. Kazin one of the most influential and widely known American critics abhors literary sham and uses the yardstick of reality as the tool of his criticism. This collection spans literature from the Romantics to the present and Kazin deals with the American writers of the classic tradition - Melville Emerson Thoreau; he evaluates the Continental writers.</p> Little Brown & Co,, hardcover
199627383<p>New York:: Knopf 1996. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In this collection of essays William Gass writes about literary language about history about the avant-garde about minimalism's brief vogue about the use of the present tense in fiction Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future about biography as a form about exile - spiritual and geographical - and he examines the relationship of the writer's life to the writer's work. Gass writes with wit and intelligence as he sifts through cultural issues of our time and contemplates how written language whether a sentence or an entire book is a container of consciousness the gateway to another's mind that we enter for a while and make our own.</p> Knopf, hardcover
193424352Philadelphia::: Centaur Press 1934. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with two lightly bumped corners in a Near Fine glassine tissue Jacket. This collection of seventeen essays by the author of Winesburg Ohio features pieces on: Meeting Ring Lardner Death on a Winter Day Gertrude Stein A Man's Mind Margaret Anderson: Real--Unusual and Prize Fighters and Authors to name but a few. A very uncommon copy of an uncommon Anderson title. Centaur Press,, unknown
197527850Boston :: Godine 1975. First Printing of the First Trade Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This is one of only 3000 copies of the trade edition. The color blue is the most suitable color of interior life.the one color that moves easily through our various states of feeling. Blue pencils blue noses blue movies laws and stockings. The dumps Mondays; the ocean the sky and the deep deep ice. The Whale and the grass in Kentucky. This essay into the "world of blue" is at the heart of Gass’s oeuvre. Godine, unknown
193123482New York:: Liveright 1931. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus dust jacket that has shallow chipping to the head & heel of spine. Uncommon in any kind of jacket. "This little book of essays.is an attempt to express in story form partly in broken verse partly in opinions .a growing conviction that modern man is losing his ability to retain his manhood in the face of the modern way of utilizing the maching and that what hope there is for him lies in women." From Anderson's introduction. Liveright, unknown
200229187<p>New York:: Knopf 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass "the finest prose stylist in America" Steven Moore Washington Post. Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative the extent and cost of political influences on writers or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make Gass is always erudite entertaining and enlightening.</p> Knopf, hardcover
198524940<p>New York::: Viking 1985. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The Flower and the Leaf is a collection of short essays that Cowley wrote between 1941 to the early 1980s. The essays cover many literary topics from: authors works intellectual issues and history. They are personal in tone and Cowley's love for books and writers emanates throughout even when he is critically analyzing a work or a writer. Some of the writers he discusses: T.S.Eliot Faulkner Cheever Hawthorne Whitman Stein just to name a few; covers the wide ranging landscape of American literature. Not only does Cowley write about his contemporaries those identified with the lost generation but also those of more recent times and those writers which defined American writing.</p> Viking,, hardcover
198927279<p>New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1989. First Printing of the First US Edition. S Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness and we are reminded above all of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.</p> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, hardcover
198928454<p>New York:: Knopf 1989. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography memoir diaries and correspondence when reviewing books: In reading his reviews we are struck by Maxwell's skill in choosing the one particular the haunting moment that further illuminates our understanding of the power of an individual life. His discernment is equally telling whether writing about literary luminaries such as Virginia Woolf Lord Byron E.B. White Isak Dinesen or delving into the diaries of an unknown Victorian curate with vivid dreams of murder and mayhem.</p> Knopf, hardcover
199527278New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1995. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, unknown
198423396<p>New York:: Persea Books 1984. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. Connolly spent his life immersed in literature and the arts and moved among the giants of modernism--James Joyce T.S. Eliot Huxley Hemingway Gide and Ezra Pound. He was the founder of Horizon magazine and one of the foremost editors and critics of his time. This collection features thirty of his essays broken into three sections: Travel Life and Literature and Satires and Parodies.</p> Persea Books, hardcover
197928602New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with light sunning to the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear and toning to the extremities. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, hardcover
